I go to JPL.

Yves Rossy Fly with the Jetman

BG How did you start to become Jetman?

The jet was located above a thunderstorm over an ocean, and lasted under a second.

So, I've been talking to a lot of NASA JPL scientists at JPL they are famous for the Mars rovers and the scientists, geologists always tell me that the real interesting science, the science rich sites, are always at the cliffs.

The key to a practical jet engine was the gas turbine, used to extract energy from the engine itself to drive the compressor.

The jet age started the missile age started. Von Braun was on there showing how to go to Mars and this was before Sputnik.

Text Jetman Yves Rossy Grand Canyon Narrator Many of the tests are conducted while Yves is strapped onto the wing, because Yves' body is an integral part of the aircraft.

Early infrared seekers were most effective in detecting infrared radiation with shorter wavelengths, such as the 4.2 micrometre emissions of the carbon dioxide efflux of a jet engine.

At Serious Play 2008, Charles Elachi shares stories from NASA's legendary Jet Propulsion Lab including tales and video from the Mars Rover project.

I wasn't really a rocket scientist, but I was working at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in sunny California where it's warm whereas now I'm in the mid West, and it's cold.

This is the ARES team we have about 150 scientists, engineers where we're working with Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Goddard Space Flight Center, Ames Research Center and half a dozen major universities and corporations in developing this.

I presented this to the jet propulsion lab at NASA, and they said that they had no ability to go down craters to look for ice, and life, ultimately, on Mars. And he said especially with legged robots, because they're way too complicated.

In November 2008, a non peer reviewed study was presented to the European Tissue Symposium by the University of Westminster, London, comparing the bacteria levels present after the use of paper towels, warm air hand dryers, and modern jet air hand dryers.

Immediately after the end of World War II, in which the Argentine Air Force took no part, it began a process of modernization, incorporating aircraft such as the Gloster Meteor jet fighter, thus becoming the first air force in Latin America equipped with jet propelled aircraft.

In a recent study, Jennifer Francis and Stephen Vavrus showed that the northern hemisphere polar jet stream, an air current that flows over the middle to northern latitudes of North America, Europe, and Asia, has begun to show larger and more persistent meanders.

Strapped to a jet powered wing, Yves Rossy is the Jetman flying free, his body as the rudder, above the Swiss Alps and the Grand Canyon. After a powerful short film shows how it works, Rossy takes the TEDGlobal stage to share the experience and thrill of flying.